I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers (with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry Pi case...)

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Oh, well - I should pick up a cheap wifi 6 router today.
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On 01 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers
(with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry
Pi case...)

Ah a good de-cluttering, how did that feel?

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Aha! That's how it felt. :/
What will you do now?

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MeaTLoTioN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Aha! That's how it felt. :/
What will you do now?

I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics
section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

(My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking
back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)



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On 04 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

(My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)

Ah that's cool, I'm sure there's always a bargain to be had in those stores. We don't seem to have any "thrift" stores like that in the UK, we can't give electronics to any charity shops and they aren't allowed to sell them as any electronics have to be disposed of as e-waste which is a crying shame oftentimes.

I think charity shops would need a special licence in order to receive and sell such items which is probably why none or hardly any sell things like that.

Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics like that, and they don't happen everywhere and often, usually early Sunday mornings in the spring/summer/autumn at random School fields or similar.

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Re: Re: I knew this would happen...
By: MeaTLoTioN to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Dec 05 2025 08:35 am

Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics li

Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

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Errol Casey wrote to MeaTLoTioN <=-

Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics li

Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

I believe boot fairs are an English term - bunch of guys parked in a
lot selling items out of the trunk of their cars.

The computer fairs in the San Francisco area were interesting back in
the '80s. We had many PC stores that sold components and custom built
computers for less than the name brand computers out there, and on the
weekends they'd have fairs at some exhibit hall, stores would set up
folding tables, usually offloading crap at great discounts (along with
some of the premier stuff there, too). If you wanted to build your own
PC, they were great.

I recall seeing lots of used hard drives, hard drives with known
defective sectors, used DIP RAM - without returns, of course. I ended
up getting a 286 motherboard, buying DIP RAM, and upgrading an XT. For
a kid who'd never seen the inside of a computer before, it was a
nail-biting experience.



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On 11 Dec 2025, Errol Casey said the following...

Re: Re: I knew this would happen...
By: MeaTLoTioN to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Dec 05 2025 08:35 am

Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electroni

Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

Boot fairs are where people wanting to sell stuff drive their wares to a local field, designated for the boot fair, and open their boots (what you call trunks) and sell whatever they have from their boot, usually setting up a table and putting the stuff on those (think wall papering table)

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